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Self-Driving Vehicles: The Future Always Takes Longer to Arrive (Part 1)

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Collision avoidance systems (warning / automatic braking) –> demonstrated by Mercedes in 2003 as well as by Honda for Japanese market and Acura brand. Lane departure warning –> first deployed by Mitsubishi in 1992 and broadly available in early 2000s from Japanese manufactuerers. So How Will We Get to Driverless Cars?

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Urbanization of Startups ? AGILEVC

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And going even further back there have been a few random ones have been built before like Salesforce.com and e-tailer RedEnvelope (IPO’d in 2003 though now defunct as a company). Startups in the city of SF are not exactly a new phenomena… a bunch of startups have been founded/built in SF in the last five years or so.